Category: News

Senate Pushes for $1bn Loan to Resuscitate Ajaokuta Steel

The Senate, on Thursday, resolved to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan on the need to facilitate one billion US dollars needed to totally revamp and resuscitate the...

Kogi Teachers Protest Non Payment of Salaries at SUBEB

The Lokoja Local Government branch of the Basic Education Staff Association of Nigeria (BESAN) yesterday protested the non payment of October salaries in Lokoja, Kogi...

Crisis Rocks Kogi APC

Crisis is looming in the  Kogi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) few days after the deputy national legal adviser of party, Chief James Ocholi,...

Echocho Raise Alarm Over Plot to Link Him to Kogi Boko Haram Suspects

‘For the avoidance of the doubt, there is no school by the name ‘Echocho Secondary school’. What we have is ‘Isah Memorial College’ established in 2004’...

Gov Wada: Why Take N20 Billion Bond? By Augustine Akubo

In recent times, a Bill seeking a law to for the establishment of a Kogi State Debt Securities (Issuance) Law, 2013, was presented to the Kogi State House of Assembly,...

Awoniyi Charges Parents on Moral and Spiritual Upbringing of Children

Parents have been asked to place emphasis on the moral and spiritual up bringing of their children. Yomi Awoniyi, Kogi State Deputy Governor stated this at the laying to...

Fed Govt Sues Boko Haram Man for 2012 Okene Church Attack

The Federal Government has sued a suspected Boko Haram member Abdulmannan Obadiki in connection with the 2012 attack on the Deeper Life Church in Okene, the Kogi State...

Activist Threatens to Sue Kogi Over 10,000 Workers’ Sack

A rights activist and the founder of Civic Education and Health Promotion Initiative, Comrade Olusegun Modeyin, has threatened to sue the Kogi State Government and the...

Care for The Less Privileged: Miss Kogi’s Heart of Gold

The current Miss Kogi, Aliyu Habeebat is not just beautiful and intelligent, she is also a rare gem with a heart of gold. Crowned Miss Kogi in July 2013, Habeebat has...

Wada Tasks Farmers on e-Wallet Programme

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State has called on farmers across the state to embrace e-wallet programme of the federal government in order to benefit from subsidised farm...